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B. M. TREE. Hotel Register.

Patented Jan. 18,1881.

N-PHHS; PNOTO-UTMO-GRAPHER, WQSNINGTON. D, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELI M. TREE, OF KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA.

HOTEL-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,861, dated January 18, 1881.

' Application filed November 9, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELI M. TREE, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Kingston, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hotel-Registers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a device embodying my invention Fig.2, a longitudinal vertical section, and Fig. 3 a transverse vertical section, of the same. Figs. 4 and 5 represent, on an enlarged scale, details of the rollers for carrying the continuous sheet of paper.

My invention relates to hotel registers. Books used for this purpose are open to various objections, in that they soon become defaced, soiled, and torn, and thus frequently present an unsightly appearance.

To remedy these objections is the object of my invention; and it consists in the following construction and arrangement, which will be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.-

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a desk mounted upon a central pivot, a, properly stepped within a bearing, a, provided in frame B of the counter or'other support for the desk A. The writing-plane, Z), proper of the desk is provided with slits at its upper and lower ends, through which, and upon the surface of said planeb, passes the continuous sheet of paper 0. At the lower end of plane I) the paper passes over av roller, d, and said paper, at its opposite ends, is wound upon the rollers D and E, the roller D of which is the supplying-roller, and E the receiving-roller. Both of these rollers are provided with a tension-sprin g, e, at one end, and with a key-spindle, h, at the other. They are also provided with binding-rods F, secured in any known way at one end, and at the other to binding-clamps G, which clamps serve, also, to bind the splice f of the receiving and supplying rollers.

H represents spaces or panels for the reception of advertisements.

I represents a space for the insertion of the name or title of the hotel.

The paper 0 is intended to be ruled with lines similar to those used by the ordinary books for hotel purposes; or they may be ruled in sections the length of plane b, corresponding to the pages of a book, the top of said sections having printed the name of the hotel and the necessary inscription at the head of the several vertical columns of the sheet.

The end of the roll of paper 0 is passed under the free end, or end next clamp G, of binding-clamp F of rollers D and E, and which rollers may be metal cylinders, or of wood, made in two sections, secured by a splice, f, or angnlarjoint,between which is also clamped, by clamp G, the free end of binding-rod F. The rollers, when in place, bear against the spring 6 sufficiently to give a tension thereto. This arrangement and construction of the rollers in two sections enables the rollers to be easily removed for the purpose of inserting a new roll of paper.

When it is desired to operate the device, in order to bring the next succeeding section into use, the key K is placed upon the receiving roller and turned for that purpose, and when it is desired to refer, back the key is placed upon the supplying-roller. When the whole length of the paper has been inscribed it is removed and a new roll inserted.

I make no claim, broadly, for a pivoted desk, and I am also aware that the idea of passing a continuous roll of paper over a plane for writing is old; but

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- A desk or hotel-register provided-with the rollers D E, having splices f, clamps G, and binding-rods F, and arranged for the reception of the continuous roll of paper 0, in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELI MARK TREE.

, Witnesses:

HENRY OBRIEN, JOHN K. OHOW, M. D. 

